Dear Editor, As a proud member of the search committee, I found Josh Nathan-Kazis’ Dec. 19 piece about the selection of Lonnie Nasatir as President-Elect of the Jewish United Fund/Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago to be a missed opportunity to highlight an exciting and pivotal moment in the Chicago Jewish community. The search process was…
Larry Eisenberg, commenter supreme, Has passed away, it would seem As recorded in The Times, Which he graced with his lines, His daughter reports she’s bereaved. With his limericks sublime, Eisenberg was 99, A biomedical engineer And Sci-Fi writer who endeared, He was truly one of a kind. Born to parents Sidney and Yetta, Larry…
It might not be the theory of relativity, but several of Albert Einstein’s letters will go on auction in Los Angeles this week – presenting smart buyers with an opportunity to own history. Nate D. Sanders Auctions will take bids for the items, the Algemeiner reported, including letters in which the famed physicist reflects on…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — An array of Jewish organizations joined a letter from religious groups to Congress urging the preservation of a law banning tax-exempt status to faith groups that endorse candidates and parties – one that President Donald Trump says he hopes to rescind. “Houses of worship are spaces for members of religious communities to…
Members of White House adviser Stephen Miller’s graduating class at Duke University have a message for the Steve Bannon protege: you don’t represent the values we learned at school. “We find it impossible to see in your words and actions any glimmer of the university values we so cherish, nor the slightest suggestion that you…
The Austrian-Jewish author Stefan Zweig has been having a bit of a moment – he’s recently been the subject of a critically acclaimed film (“Stefan Zweig: Farewell To Europe”) and his experience as a refugee during World War Two has proven especially poignant in our time. Born in Vienna in 1881, Zweig, along with fellow writer…
After the Algemeiner ran a piece criticizing the New York Times for its coverage of a cookbook containing Senator Chuck Schumer’s treyf meatloaf recipe, I wrote a commentary asking whether the paper in fact erred in its judgement. My opinion was that it didn’t, but I wanted to know what our readers thought. We got…
Dear Editor: Bethany Mandel’s recent op-ed Women’s March Organizers Should Be More Careful About the Company They Keep (column January 24, 2017) foolishly suggests that effective organizing is only possible if we stand in 100% agreement with our allies on every issue. At all times, but particularly in our current political climate, working in broad…
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